Lonelygirl15

[ShardinsKitten]

Drop Contents:

1 white envelope
1 plastic bag
8 stones (looks like graphite/granite pebbles)
2 viles (J-5 and J-6)
1 library card catalog

- On the outside of the envelop it says "From Debrowski" ( I hope I spelled that right)
- Inside the plastic bag was the library card catalog
-The front of the library card catalog said "International Conference of Chemical Education The 8th edition, 1985 in Tokyo"
- On the back it says (all hand written): "You should know what to do. I suppose it is time to tell you that what you have been destroying is"
-followed by these letters underneath: IKYOIYK
-then under neath the letters are these numbers: 1(+ 8 ) 3(- 8 ) 5(+ 16) 3(- 16) 6(+ 16) 2(- 16) 7(+ 24 )

Ok going to try to make this as clear as possible lol:

- The front (where the book listing is) of the card in the top left corner is{typed) :
(SQ)
QD40
.I536
1985
-Main contents of the front(typed):
International Conference on Chemical
Education (8th : 1985 : Tokyo,
Japan) Widening the scope of
Chemistry... 1987.

Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in
conjunction with the Chemical Society
of Japan"--P. [ii].
Includes bibliographies.
ISBN 0-632-01537-3

1. Chemistry--Study and teaching --
Congress. I. Takeuchi, Yoshito.
1934- II. International Union of
Pure and applied Chemistry. III.
Nihon Kagakkai, IV. Title.

870623 870622 NjP
ZG /ZG A* 87-B28379
86-26421

- The front on the bottom left corner is (typed):
SQm
E000271




I will have pictures, hopefully later tonight, and at worst tomorrow morning. Sorry guys.


ETA: Pictures! This is the best his camera would pick it all up sorry...

[Luminous]

[TOSG]

Nice work! Looks like we might need to send someone up to look at that library book.

[trainer101]

1985
5489
8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CHEMICAL EDUCATION WIDENING THE SCOPE OF CHEMISTRY :PLENARY AND INVITED LECTURES AND SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
IUPAC AND THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
BLACKWELL SCIENTIFIC
0-632-01537-3
HELD IN TOKYO JAPAN, 23-28 AUGUST 1985

From http://www.chemistry.or.jp/library/kokusaikaigi2004.html

I'm trying to find more.
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[janesalteredstates]

I'm just collecting information that may or may not be of use.

IKYOIYK
Atomic numbers of
Iodine (I)
Potassium (K)
Oxygen (O)
Yttrium (Y)
I = 53 K = 19 O = 8 Y = 39

53 19 39 8 53 39 19?

Info on Yttrium Oxide
Formula Y2O3 (sorry no subscript in BBCode)

* name: yttrium (III) oxide
* formula weight: 225.81
* formal oxidation number of Y: 3
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[janesalteredstates]

I am sure this is nothing, BUT, why not post it?

OK so, I applied the number sequence
1(+ 8 ) 3(- 8 ) 5(+ 16) 3(- 16) 6(+ 16) 2(- 16) 7(+ 28 ) which becomes 9 5 21 -13 22 -14 35
to "International Conference of Chemical Education The 8th edition, 1985 in Tokyo"

Got irnocid Not a word.
Then I thought, "hey maybe it's an anagram"
So I googled Iron ICD

some interesting stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_deficiency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemochromatosis **
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_overload_disorder

Probably just a case of looking hard enough and finding something that is sot of related to something haha, but I figured it couldn't hurt to post it.
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[Loki]

Interesting theory... but there's only one problem (and possibly more).

First: 3-8 = -5, not +5

Second: how did you apply the sequence?
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[janesalteredstates]

[Ziola]

From earlier threads, I believe that the numbers indicate a cipher, in which the letter needs to be moved forward or backwards according to the number in parenthesis.

EEK!! So, that sort of doesn't make sense. Let me try again...each letter has a number assigned to it (a=1, b=2, ect.). The numbers in parenthesis indicate how many letters you should move so, going along with my original number sequence 1(+ would mean that a actually becomes i (I think that's how it works )

[janesalteredstates]

Thanks Ziola. I am dumb.

So how do you know what letters to use?
How was this used last time?

There is more info coming, however, if a certain firefighter stops goofing off
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[Ziola]

Janes,
That I don't know. I know that it all relates to DNA somehow usually, but other then that I haven't got a clue...as usual

[deagol]

The numbers tell you which letter to choose from a list of protein names. e.g from the last puzzle:

The DNA translated into this protein chain: H S L H E
7(-11) 3(+1) 4 2 6(-9)

[janesalteredstates]

edit: I'm sorry. I just realized you were using the last puzzle as an example. I am not smart.

However, I do understand what the numbers do now. Thank you.
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[Libra]

Hmm I thought I would try a bit of decoding myself, but I'm not sure I'm going about this right.

I took the letters IKYOIYK and applied the numbers to them to get:

I +8= Q
Y- 8 = Q
I + 16= Y
Y - 16= I
Y + 16= U
K + 28= M

So the final answer is QQYIOUM (unless I really suck at counting)

But from here I'm not sure what to do. I thought I would throw it into a tinyurl to see what happens but got nothing. So that isn't it. It isn't a part of a protein sequence either. So I have no idea.

Please tell me if I did it correct. I haven't played much ARGs but this one has a lot of biology in it so I'm really interested now! I have to go and read all the old threads so I can figure out how these puzzles work...

[Ziola]

*is waiting for someone who has a clue how to do this to show up*


I wish someone would make an ARG that I could play...like those hidden picture pages in my son's HightLights magazine